Friday, 21 February 2014

Reps Clash Over CBN Gov’s Suspension

The House of Representatives on Thursday had a rowdy session over the
suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, by President Goodluck Jonathan, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Debate on the suspension of the CBN governor started when the Minority
Whip of the House, Samson Osagie (APC-Edo), raised a point of order on
the suspension of Sanusi.

According to Osagie, the CBN Act of 2007 as amended does not empower the President or anybody else to suspend the CBN governor. He said section 11 (7) of the Act only empowered the President to remove
the governor, subject to the approval of two-third majority of the
Senate.

Senate’s spokesman, Enyinnaya Abaribe,
reacting to the suspension, said the President by suspending Sanusi was
well within the range of his statutory function as President.

“The President only suspended Sanusi, he did not sack him. So he acted accordingly,” he said.